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I just open-sourced my iOS password manager with dropbox syncing

• chubs 14y ago
  Gave up trying to sell it, so here's the source code - hopefully some budding iOS developer out there finds it instructive. Peace :)
  • maybird 14y ago
    Sounds like there's an interesting story behind this. Care to elaborate on what happened..what your business plan was?
    • chubs 14y ago
      I actually wrote a blog post about it. It's a bit embarrasingly naive of me really, but have a read if you're interested: http://splinter.com.au/how-i-just-wasted-a-month-on-my-latest-app-an http://splinter.com.au/how-i-just-wasted-a-month-on-my-lates...
• kablamo 14y ago
  Interesting work. I've been thinking about doing something similar for a long time. I'm not on OSX though and I'm a Perl guy. Someone once suggested to me an encrypted text file + dropbox. You could use pgp or gpg for encryption. Also Vim 7.3 has blowfish encryption: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Encryption http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Encryption Obviously an app has the potential to be more convenient and user friendly. But a text file is a very flexible solution.
  • chubs 14y ago
    This app basically just uses encrypted text files. The crypto is pretty straightforwards, i'm sure you could access it with perl.
• hannibalhorn 14y ago
  Always great to see examples of more complicated iOS apps. Did you ever have a desktop side implementation, maybe a chrome extension? I'm a longtime 1Password user, and would have to say the ability to use the same password manager on my iPhone and Mac, sync'd via Dropbox, is a big reason for that.
  • chubs 14y ago
    My plan was definitely to make an OSX client, then a mac client, then browser extensions, however the dismal sales make it hard to justify the work, as i'm sure you'd understand.